Week 1: 1989
Required Reading
- Dietrich Orlow, A History of Modern Germany, pp. 308-320 (CE).
- Charles Maier, ‘Chapter 1: Losing Faith’, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton UP, 1997), pp. 22-58 (CE).
- Film: The Lives of Others (Available in Short Loan at the Library)
Suggested Reading:
- Timothy Garton Ash, The File: A Personal History (Vintage Books, 1998).
- Konrad Jarausch, ‘1968 and 1989: Caesuras, Comparisons, and Connections’, in 1968: The World Transformed: 461-78.
- Hans Joas and Martin Kohli (eds.), Der Zusammenbruch der DDR. Soziologische Analysen (Suhrkamp, 1993)
- Charles Schüddekopft (ed.), Wir sind das Volk. Flugschriften, Aufrufe und Texte einer deutschen Revolution (Reinbek, 1990)
- John Torpey, Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and Its Legacies (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1995).